Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fewer than 10,000 of the 60,000 patients in Veterans Administration neuropsychiatric hospitals could be discharged if their families or community groups would only accept them back home, said the National Association for Mental Health. If the same ratio holds in state hospitals, 100,000 patients are being kept long after recovery...
...eldest son. Not only does this practice reduce the number of children in each generation, and keep each property permanently within the family, but it has some other curious results. Polyandry, for some reason not wholly accounted for by anthropologists, reduces the fertility of wives, and produces an abnormal ratio of male to female births. In Jaunswar Bawar, where men outnumber women four to one and more than 60,000 people practice polyandry, only one birth was reported last year...
...inch of the way to where he is. Even his nativity carried a brand that still sears his political outlook. He was born 46 years ago, an Italian in an Irish sea. The lower Greenwich Village neighborhood of his birth was about 95% Irish, about 5% Italian. (Today, the ratio in that neighborhood is almost precisely reversed.) His father, Gerard De Sapio, came to the U.S. at the age of ten from Avellino, some 30 miles inland from Naples. Recalls Gerard: "We were on a flat-bottomed scow, maybe like the Staten Island ferry, if you know what I mean...
...Said Bulova's Vice President Stanley Simon: "Obviously, if we bought some of the stock, we would be willing to buy more." Full control might be hard to come by, but Bulova was expected to try to get it by trading Bulova stock for Tiffany shares at a ratio that would give a Tiffany stockholder about $64 a share, almost equal to the book value...
That will still be only half the doctor-patient ratio among whites. But in the long run, perhaps, not so many doctors will be needed: when Indians live long enough to show their stamina, they seem to have proportionately fewer cases of cancer and diabetes than whites...